Brand Name Justification-Sam Posting.rtf

This document contains a brand name justification and federal contract opportunity notice for a patient monitoring equipment upgrade at the Battle Creek VA Medical Center and Wyoming CBOC in Michigan. The brand name justification document outlines the need to upgrade the existing Philips patient monitoring platform and IntelliBridge Enterprise solution at the two facilities to ensure compatibility with the new Cerner EMR system implementation by June 2023. The upgrade includes new clinical decision support tools, cybersecurity, monitoring hardware, software and network cabling. The opportunity notice provides additional details on the scope of replacing the existing non-Cerner compliant Spacelabs monitoring system with a standardized Philips solution across both sites. Performance monitoring will be conducted by the COR, biomedical engineering and nursing operations on the new system. Four Points Technology was awarded the firm-fixed price contract for $301,364.87 on September 26, 2022 to provide the equipment, installation, integration and training for the monitoring platform upgrade, with a delivery date of January 26, 2023.